Princess Bubbles Creates

It is difficult for me to find work to blog about this week.  It certainly isn't because I haven't been creating.  Right now I  am working on a piece for publication, finished a piece I am hoping to have published and my work for my artist in residency at Ayr Library.  Also, I have started teaching art to seniors on a weekly basis and that requires a fair amount of prep.  I am finished my March 'sinchie' guild challenge and I posted that last week.  This is the start of my April piece.  The challenge color is obviously white.  I applied fibre paste using a texture plate to imprint it.  I must have set this piece on top of something that had blue paint on it as a bit has seeped onto it.  That may or may not get covered up.  I am linking to http://www.quiltfabrication.com/ https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.ca/ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca/

Sharon B  is challenging us to do the Chevron stitch this week.  I don't use this stitch very often but I am familiar with it.  I added the Fly stitch and the Chain stitch.  It makes an interesting seam embellishment.  These muted colors are very different for me but they work for this project.

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.   anonymous I am linking to http://image-in-ing.blogspot.ca https://mersad-photography.blogspot.ca

My bead journal for March is coming along.  One part of me wants to call it finished but another part sees so many more ways to add beads.  As it is now I will have to park this project and concentrate on some teaching workshops.  That is always fun too! I am linking to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.ca/

My 'sinchie' is finished.  Our guild challenge is a six-inch square and the colour this month is brown.  I rarely work with the colour brown but I did manage to find some brown things in my stash.  I started with a hand-dyed wool as the base.   I added some painted cheesecloth and lace and kept building from there.  I really wanted this piece to be full of texture.  Silk pods, mica flakes, heated tyvek, a feather and a skeleton leaf were added to create a forest floor. I am linking to http://www.quiltfabrication.com/ https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.ca/ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca/

A highlight of our trip to Hawaii was Foster Botanical Garden.  I very happily spent time there.  Our Uber driver had never heard of the place and couldn't fathom why I wanted to go there, let alone bring a camera.  Clearly, we all aren't on the same page when it comes to beauty!  Kind of funny. I am linking to http://image-in-ing.blogspot.ca/ https://mersad-photography.blogspot.ca

The journal prompt this week is friends.  I wasn't particularly inspired.  This journal page is okay but the dog image isn't all that clear.  I should probably color it in with a black marker to make it a true silhouette.